Chapter 12: Honeysuckle Flowers
When he returned, the mist shrouded the whole mountain village so clear and clear that inky black leaked down from the night, cutting the moonlight into pieces of gold. Although the Dragon Boat Festival has been crossed for some days, it is the first time she has seen such a dark village, and she has really appreciated what pure nature is.
"Mother, the second sister brought us something to eat." Yichen put a bundle of millet on the kitchen floor, and said to his mother excitedly.
"Dragon Boat Festival, why did you bring these leftover scraps."
Xie Ling frowned while looking at their "trophies" and said, "Don't you know that these are sorghum dregs?" Broken the miles for the pigs. ”
"What, these are for pigs?" My younger siblings all gathered around.
In the face of everyone's doubts, the Dragon Boat Festival just smiled lightly and blinked his eyes as bright as moonlight, "Pigs don't eat this, if pigs eat it, they will grow strong and thick, this is definitely what people eat, but we Jiangnan people are not very used to eating, and the northerners also grind it down to eat, you wait a minute, I will immediately conjure up a delicious millet soup for you." ”
So, the Dragon Boat Festival put the millet in the basin, poured water, and washed it gently, Yichen has always been the most considerate of the Dragon Boat Festival, and hurriedly called everyone to say: "I have eaten soon." "Why don't they all come over to help the second sister wash.
That's how everyone moves.
After the millet was washed, the Dragon Boat Festival found the gauze towel for steaming the zongzi and wrapped the millet li. Let Yichen pull one end and put a large bowl at the bottom. She began to wrein hard. The yellow, sticky millet juice leaked out of the scarf and dripped into the bowl.
In a short time, a large bowl was dripping. According to the method just now, I wrestled all the other millet li into juice and made several bowls.
Then, during the Dragon Boat Festival, bowl after bowl of millet juice was poured into the pot and lided. Xie Ling went to light the fire, and after a while, the smell of sorghum filled the entire kitchen.
The millet juice has turned into a jelly-like gel ball, and the Dragon Boat Festival puts it in a bowl, adds a little sugar, and has a bowl per person.
Meiya was the most gluttonous, and she couldn't wait to lick her tongue, and immediately smiled into a flower, "Wow, it's delicious, Meiya has never eaten such a delicious thing!" ”
"Huang Li was originally bitter, but now the taste has become extremely sweet, my sister is really amazing!" Yichen quickly ate a bowl and licked his tongue, still unsatisfied.
Even Xie Ling was full of praise, unexpectedly, no matter how crude and unbearable it was, in the hands of the Dragon Boat Festival, it could become the best thing in the world.
"Dragon Boat Festival, you are really a good helper for your mother. A great example for younger siblings! ”
"Actually, as long as you use your brain, the easiest way, you can make something delicious. The third sister is really getting more and more sensible. My sister will also learn from the third sister in the future. ”
Even Erya also held the hand of the Dragon Boat Festival and cast an approving look.
While eating during the Dragon Boat Festival, I thought, since I have been affirmed by my family, I want everyone to live a happy life, but tonight's meal is solved, what about tomorrow, even if I eat millet soup tomorrow, what about the day after tomorrow? No way! You have to think of a long-term solution.
The next day, the Dragon Boat Festival remembered the mountain he had been to yesterday, "Maybe there are any treasures to be found there." ”
This time, she didn't bring her siblings. I only brought a scythe, just in case.
Sure enough, before sunset, she found another treasure—honeysuckle.
In the distance, I saw a yellow and white flower in the purple and red vine, and it was honeysuckle. In the previous life of the Dragon Boat Festival, I loved to drink honeysuckle tea, and I also studied this plant called "mandarin duck vine" for a period of time, and also wrote a paper on field investigations, so I recognized it at first sight.
One pedicle and two flowers, two stamens poke out, form pairs, inseparable, like male and female accompaniment, and like mandarin ducks dancing together, so honeysuckle is also called "mandarin duck vine".
There was laryngitis in the previous life of the Dragon Boat Festival, and she knew that it had the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, not only an excellent natural drink, but also to cure lung diseases and stomach diseases, and had a lot of medicinal value. "If you sell it in a pharmacy, it should sell for a lot of money."
The Dragon Boat Festival is to find honeysuckle in a remote place behind the mountain, the people of Da Tomb Foot Village like to plant mulberry, taboo the cemetery full of mountains, sex does not like to move around, so I did not find that there are so many honeysuckle here. So the Dragon Boat Festival cut a basket full and sold it at the village pharmacy.
The owner of the pharmacy is surnamed Li, the village is small, there is only one pharmacy, the shopkeeper Li first saw a child come to sell what honeysuckle, he didn't think so, and when he saw it with his own eyes, he suddenly said: "So many honeysuckles, where did you dig them from?" You must know that the ladies in the town love to drink honeysuckle tea, and the current price of honeysuckle is not cheap. ”
It turned out that the honeysuckle in the town was more expensive, and the Dragon Boat Festival looked at the sky and thought, today is the cheaper Li shopkeeper, and if you go to the town to sell it another day, you will be able to exchange for more silver.
"You make a price, but you can't see that I'm a child, tell me. Otherwise, I won't sell it to you in the future. Dragon Boat said with a smile in a child's tone.
Shopkeeper Li is an authentic and simple village doctor, he doesn't like to take advantage, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, how much the town collects from you, I will also charge you, but minus the ox cart money to and from the town." ”
Dragon Boat Festival took the money, thinking that this shopkeeper Li was honest, and honeysuckle was worth the price. She used the money she got to exchange for a bag of rice, a bag of flour, a pound of meat, and a bottle of milk from a dairy cow.
Happily going home, Xie Ling was dumbfounded, I don't know how the Dragon Boat Festival could move so many things home. The Dragon Boat Festival only said that it was sent by well-wishers, and did not reveal the honeysuckle.
That night, the beautiful girl who hadn't eaten meat for a long time was full of oil, and everyone regarded the Dragon Boat Festival, which would become a delicacy, as a fairy, only Xie Ling was stunned, where did the Dragon Boat Festival get so much money. She didn't believe that any kind people would send food.
For several days, the Dragon Boat Festival secretly went to the back of the mountain to cut honeysuckle to sell, and it was rare for the family to have meat to eat every day. The rice jar, which had been empty before, was also full. In order to prevent the rats from stealing it, Xie Ling pressed a stone on the rice jar, and Yichen was even more happy, but even the rats at home were reluctant to come to patronize it for a long time.